Hamamatsu International Piano Academy ANNIVERSARY CONCERT SERIES
- Date
- 2016/2/8(Mon) 19:00
- Venue
- Suntory Hall
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ProgramProgram
W.A.Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332 (Hisako KAWAMURA)
S.Rachmaninov: Prelude in G Major, Op.32-5 (Ayako UEHARA)
S.Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op.36 (Ayako UEHARA)
F.Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op.35 (Seong-Jin CHO)
W.A.Mozart: Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K.448 (Hisako KAWAMURA & Ayako UEHARA)
S.Rachmaninov: Waltz and Romance for 6 hands (Hisako KAWAMURA&Ayako UEHARA & Seong-Jin CHO)
ProfileProfile
Ayako UEHARA, Piano
Ayako Uehara became the focus of international attention after winning the first prize in the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 2002.
Ayako made her debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in the 2005/06 season with Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, and returned to work with the orchestra in the next season. She also made her debut with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Noseda in the UK and on tour in Japan, and returned to the London Symphony Orchestra in February 2008 with Vassily Petrenko.
Other recent performances with orchestras include engagements with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Fabio Luisi, Dresden Philharmonic with Simone Young, Russian National Orchestra with Mikhail Pletnev, Toscanini Philharmonic with Lorin Maazel, a tour of Japan with the Berlin Radio Orchestra and Marek Janowski, and the New Japan Philharmonic with Seiji Ozawa. In May 2010, Ayako Uehara toured with the State Symphony Orchestra “Novaya Rossiya” led by Yuri Bashmet in Japan, performing Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto No. 1, winning critical acclaim.
In recital, Ayako Uehara tours Japan each season. In 2003 she made her London debut at Wigmore Hall and returned there in 2005. Other recitals include debuts in Italy, in Varese and Cervara, for the Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano; at the Ruhrgebiet Piano Festival (2003), the International Chopin Festival, Poland (2002 and 2005), the Dubrovnik Festival, Croatia (2003). In 2007/08 Ayako made her recital debuts in Copenhagen and at the Tonhalle, Zurich. And in August 2010 she participated in the 65th International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki, Poland.
Since 2003, Ayako has recorded exclusively with EMI International.
Hisako KAWAMURA, Piano
There are two mentors in Kawamura’s musical education: Malgorzata Bator-Schreiber in Göttingen who built her up musically and artistically, and Prof. Vladimir Krainev at the Hannover University of Music and Drama who developed her further to an artistic personality.
After numerous outstanding successes at renowned international piano competitions, Kawamura’s international concert career began. She won the first prizes at the Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey, the A. Casagrande International Piano Competition in Terni, the G.B. Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli and the European Chopin Competition in Darmstadt, she became laureate at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels.
She performed at the Rudolfium in Prague in the Subscription series of the Czech Philharmonic followed by the tour of Japan with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek in the autumn of 2013 with great success.
Besides her solo activity, in which Kawamura has participated at major music festivals like Klavierfestival Ruhr, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Festival Auvers-sur-Oise, Carinthian Summer, Klavierwoche Ernen, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Chopin Festival Duszniki-Zdroj, La folle journée au Japon, she also performs as a sensitive chamber musician.
She has released ‘Chopin Ballades’ as her third album this fall from the RCA Red Seal label. Her previous releases include ‘Hisako Kawamura plays Chopin’ released as Super Audio CD and ‘Chopin Sonata No. 3 and Schumann Humoresque’ both receiving high acclaims from music critics. Other recordings include works of Mozart, Schubert and Prokofiev released from “DiscAuver” label, and works by Schubert and Schumann from “audite” label.
She has been encouraged by numerous scholarships from prestigious organizations, including the German piano company Ibach, the European Yamaha Foundation, Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and Rohm Music Foundation.
In Japan, Kawamura’s music activity was awarded the prestigious Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists of Music in spring of 2012 from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. She was also awarded by three important Music Prizes in 2009; the Fresh Artist Music Prize of the Nippon Steel Corporation, the IDEMITSU Music Prize of Idemitsu Kosan and the Prize of the Chopin Society Japan.
Seong-Jin CHO, Piano
While studying at the Seoul Arts High School, Seong-Jin Cho is becoming to be known as an amazingly gifted pianist with great future.
Born in Seoul in 1994.
Winner of the 1st prize at the 7th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in
Japan in 2009. Seong-Jin was the youngest winner (15 years old) in the history
of the competition. The past winners of the competition includes Sergei Babayan
Alessio Bax, Alexander Gavrylyuk, and Rafal Blechacz who later all became
winners of renowned international competitions.
Hiroko Nakamura, president of the board of judges commented on him, “An
Overwhelming and extraordinary talent”.
Seong-Jin is also a winner of various other competitions such as 1st prize at the
Moscow Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (2008), the Eumag Chumchu
Competition, the Ewha and Kyung Hyang Competition in Korea, and 3rd prize at
Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in June 2011.
Following his 2005 debut at the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series, he was invited to perform at the 2008 Musical Kremlin International Festival and gave recitals throughout Germany under the auspices of the KAWAI Corporation.
At the invitation of Lorin Maazel, Seong-Jin appeared as soloist for Grieg Piano
Concerto at the Castleton Festival
He has also performed with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (Myung-Whun Chung),
Euro-Asian Philharmonic Orchestra, PMF Orchestra at opening concert of
the Pacific Music Festival Sapporo 2010, NHK Symphony Orchestra,and in a piano
trio at Kumho Art Hall and at the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music. In March 2011, Seong-Jin toured in Japan as a soloist of Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
under the direction of Myung-Whun Chung who highly appreciates his musicality and maturity as artist. In October 2011, he performed as soloist of Rundfunk
Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski in Korea (Emperor concerto) and was highly phrased by Maestro and the orchestra.
In November-December, 2011, his performed his first recital tour in Japan and made a great success.
Seong-Jin’s future engagements includes concerti with various orchestras in Korea and abroad; following a success at a concert with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Mo. Myung-Whun Chung in Paris on 1 June, 2012, Seong-Jin performed three concerts as soloist of Russian National Orchestra under the baton of Mikhail Pletnev in Korea.
Studied under Prof. Soo Jung Shin and Prof. Sook Ryeon Park.
Seon-Jin is scheduled to continue his musical study music at the Conservatoire
national sup?rieur de musique from this October.
Hosts
Presented by HAMAMATSU CITY・HAMAMATSU CITY Board of Education/ Hamamatsu Cultural Foundation
Supported by JAPAN MUSIC FOUNDATION JESC/ Japan Arts
AGENCY FOR CULTURAL AFFAIRS GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN/ KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER, KOREAN EMBASSY IN JAPAN
